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One of the most popular brands for smart home tech, Belkin’s Wemo, is officially pausing development of Matter devices. What was supposed to be a revolution in interconnectivity and ease of access has now lost one of its biggest contributors.

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The music streaming wars centered around Apple Music and (the now TikTok-ifieid) Spotify have calcified in recent years.

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Google is pushing out another Pixel Feature Drop starting today. The latest update improves the camera capabilities on the Pixel 6/6 Pro devices, which are nearing their second year of life. It also brings some other latest-gen capabilities to older-gen Pixel smartphones.

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There’s good news for all those folks who picked up the last version of the Pixel Buds Pro. Google’s finally catching up to Apple and announced it will add spatial audio to its flagship earbuds devices. Unfortunately for all those folks who went for cheaper options, less expensive buds like the Pixel Buds A-Series…

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Two of the greatest memories of our childhoods—an adolescent casino and an antiquated data storage format—are still colliding to this very day. A Chuck E. Cheese employee gave his TikTok viewers the low-down on how the pizzeria/arcade combo still uses floppy disks to load its animatronic shows.

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The easiest way to differentiate a Windows laptop from an Apple one is to either check the logo on the lid, or find the collection of Intel, AMD, Microsoft, and Nvidia stickers near the keyboard: the telltale branding of the PC world.

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Unlike tablets, which now straddle the line between media consumption devices and pared down laptops, e-notes have always leaned more towards productivity, serving as a digital replacement for pen and paper. Today, the reMarkable 2 leans even farther into being a productivity tool with the new Type Folio keyboard case…

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Move over OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s Prometheus—there’s yet another large language model-powered artificial intelligence in

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Facebook jail is about to get less crowded. Under a new set of policies revealed this Thursday, parent company Meta says it’s now harder for users to wind up with their Facebook accounts suspended for lesser violations of its rules. Those changes come after years of pushback from civil society groups and Meta’s…

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